By Tom Breihan
on June 24, 2009 at 1:15 p.m. EDT

Trash Menagerie reports that Andy Hughes, British producer and DJ and former member of ambient house titans the Orb, passed away on June 12 after after what a press release calls "a short illness." He was 43.

Hughes contributed to the Orb throughout the 90s, working on such albums as Orblivion, Live 93, and Orbus Terrarum. Later, Hughes went on to produce material for groups like Basement Jaxx.